Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *smeukaną Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_smeukaną

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mwg fire σμὐχω to burn up, smoulder away *smewgʰ- smoke smáugti to choke múch fire

verb Strong class 2 to smoke, fume From Proto-Indo-European *smewgʰ- (‘smoke’), a term whose exact form is difficult to reconstruct due to subtly different phonetics in its descendants. Cognate with Ancient Greek σμὐχω (smukhō, ‘to burn up, smoulder away’), Lithuanian smáugti (‘to choke’), Old Irish múch (‘fire’), Welsh mwg (‘fire’), Old Armenian մուխ (mux, ‘smoke’). Kroonen assumes the verb was back-formed to the iterative *smukkōną ~ *smukōną (‘to smoke’) (whence Proto-West Germanic *smokōn), which explains the 'k' instead of the expected 'g'.